“…A collective biography of the post‐World War II generation will likely reinforce the conclusions that the demands and enticements of Cold War science, especially in applied and mission‐oriented programs (such as missile and space efforts), as well as intelligence programs, shifted indexing, cataloging, and retrieval into the hands of subject specialists and engineers whose focus was the immediate solution of problems for a specialized audience. They could welcome deviations from established library procedures but few of them, it seems, were able to find ways to live comfortably in the social/professional worlds of either theoretical information science or library‐oriented programs as they responded to new technological opportunities (Cragin, 2004; Crowley, 1999). A study of the INTREX project at MIT showed that attempts at blending computer scientists, librarians, subject specialists, and self‐described information scientists into a long‐term program faced considerable hurdles (Burke, 1996).…”